Table 3. Means and standard deviations/median and interquartile range on the Direct Assessment of Functional Status (DAFS) of the group without dementia and the group with AD.
| Elderly without dementia (N = 30) | Alzheimer's disease (N = 24) | P | Effect size (d) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean ± standard deviations | Median/Interquartile range | Mean ± standard deviations | Median/Interquartile range | ||||
| DAFS Time Orientation | - | 16.0/14.0-16.0 | - | 12.0/9.0-14.0 | <0.01* | 1.35 | |
| DAFS Communication | - | 14.0/12.0-15.0 | - | 10.0/7.0-13.0 | <0.01* | 0.94 | |
| DAFS Finance | 20.5 ± 8.2 | - | 13.6 ± 5.9 | - | 0.01* | 0.96 | |
| DAFS Shopping | - | 14.0/13.0-17.0 | - | 8.0/2.0-15.0 | <0.01* | 1.20 | |
| DAFS Grooming | - | 13.0/13.0-13.0 | - | 11.5/10.0-13.0 | <0.01* | 1.41 | |
| DAFS Eating | - | 10.0/10.0-10.0 | - | 10.0/10.0-10.0 | 0.60 | ------- | |
| DAFS Total Score | - | 85.5/73.0-97.0 | - | 62.5/55.0-72.0 | <0.01* | 1.53 | |
DAFS: Direct Assessment of Functional Status.
*
p≤0.05. Student's t- test for DAFS finance and Mann Whitney's U test for the other items.